Word: greying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another appointment which was strictly Harrington's, yet stemmed inevitably back to Harry Hopkins, was that of husky, grey-haired Mrs. Florence Kerr to be assistant administrator in charge of WPA's women's and professional division. Harry Hopkins knew Florence Kerr 30 years ago when both attended Grinnell College, where she later taught, where her husband is now assistant to the president. He knew her again after the War, when both worked for the Red Cross in Louisiana. Howard Hunter has known her well ever since 1935, when Harry Hopkins picked her out of State relief...
...quavering, crackerish voice took up the tale: "Today I live at the Mississippi State Hospital in Jackson. Doctors there say I am about 70 years old. ... I am almost bald, and what hair I have is grey. ... I am five feet seven inches tall, and weigh 145 Ibs. My doctor believes I was well educated . . . and I am sure I was once familiar with financial statements. . . . I can identify unusual plants by their botanical names. . . . Also I remember the rules of complicated card games like bridge. "Gradually I have recalled several places where I have been. ... I remember best Pensacola...
When the police led him away, Greenfield, a tired little milliner, told them the whole story. For 17 grey, hopeless years he had washed, dressed and fed his imbecile son. He bought him blocks and tin soldiers, read sense into his harsh animal cries. On Sundays he would lead the shuffling child, who was almost a head taller than he, past neighbors' eyes into the park. Both Louis Greenfield and his wife, Anna, stinted themselves, sent the boy to hospitals, neurologists, special schools. But modern science could teach him nothing, could not even relieve painful convulsions that attacked...
Most recently illuminated of all Near Eastern art traditions is that of Iran (Persia), whose present Shah welcomes celebration of his country's bygone glories. Chief illuminator is a tall, ruddy gentleman with thin grey hair who lives and labors alternately in a Park Avenue apartment and in a truck on the craggy passes of Iran. Mr. Arthur Upham Pope is director of the ten-year-old American Institute for Iranian Art and Archeology...
...spent more than $10,000,000 on tackle alone* (twice the amount they spent in 1933). Major reason for the current spurt is a vogue for deep-sea angling, increasingly popular in the past five years since it has been dramatized in newsreels and publicized by fishermen like Zane Grey, Ernest Hemingway and Franklin Delano Roosevelt...